Pretty big news today as many of you will be effected. Nvidia is going to halt driver support on older model GeForce Graphic cards. Basically and roughly up-to the 200 series will get an driver EOL, m...

No big deal. By 2016 hardly anyone will have those cards anymore, and noone will play newer games on them that require driver optimization beyond that date. My father has a 260, but doesn't play any games at all. Hats off to Nvidia for even supporting everything for so long.

So the 200 series gets driver support for 8 years in total. I guess that is reasonable. Though I got my 260 core 216 in 2010, 2016 seem pretty cheap when you think of it that way. I still use the card in another machine.

Me thinks this is a move to concentrate their efforts on 11_x cards in preparation for DX12.

I'm amazed that I still have regular drivers for the 8800GT, but I always assumed that there's been nothing for me in the patches for quite some time.
As long as the drivers are easy to find, I'm alright with that.

in 3 year they will say no more driver for gtx 5xx 6xx, 7xx,
it s time to boycotte nvidia marketting
oblige people to buy new card when your game will not run on old driver? wtf
don t be stupid people, react !!!
stole our money is that what you want ,people have to wake up, stop ginving your money to nvidia or amd ,
rename graphic card is maybe ok but no more driver it s a shame
it s time to be smarter than marketing or this will never end,
we will be more and more stupide for them, at this time they are laughing out at us,
how stupid we are to shut our mouth and buying whaterver it s coming

Been waiting for this. It's obvious they were having some problems getting the most out of the newer cards. I thought they were gonna wimp out and only take the bottom rung out again. GREAT decision. Sorry, but if you are gaming on an 8800 no reason you should even be here anymore looking for newest drivers lol. Because they rarely do anything and that is a fact. All these old cards are doing is forcing down tons of work for the driver team. For hardware that is simply obsolete it's clearly a waste of time. I for one am ecstatic we get to throw away all the junk from the 300 series as well.

I also don't even see how this could affect people with these cards in any significant way. My old 560ti stopped seeing improvements I could see long ago on most of the games I'm playing. PLEASE now bleed some performance out of our high-end cards because ffs we have been waiting. Cannot wait for lower-level access in DX for the 770.

in 3 year they will say no more driver for gtx 5xx 6xx, 7xx,
it s time to boycotte nvidia marketting
oblige people to buy new card when your game will not run on old driver? wtf
don t be stupid people, react !!!
stole our money is that what you want ,people have to wake up, stop ginving your money to nvidia or amd ,
rename graphic card is maybe ok but no more driver it s a shame
it s time to be smarter than marketing or this will never end,
we will be more and more stupide for them, at this time they are laughing out at us,
how stupid we are to shut our mouth and buying whaterver it s coming

No one tells you to buy the game that requires a newer card, no do they tell you to buy a newer card to play newer games, that's all on you. If you don't want to buy it, then don't. It's your decision, not anyone else's.......

it s time to boycotte XBOX and PS marketting
oblige people to buy new console when your game will not run on old console? wtf
don t be stupid people, react !!!
stole our money is that what you want ,people have to wake up, stop ginving your money to MS or SONY ,
it s time to be smarter than marketing or this will never end,
we will be more and more stupide for them, at this time they are laughing out at us,
how stupid we are to shut our mouth and buying whaterver it s coming

it s time to boycotte McDonalds marketting
oblige people to buy new fries when your Big Mac cannot be eaten? wtf
don t be stupid people, react !!!
stole our money is that what you want ,people have to wake up, stop ginving your money to McDonalds ,
rename cheese burger is maybe ok but no fries it s a shame
it s time to be smarter than marketing or this will never end,
we will be more and more stupide for them, at this time they are laughing out at us,
how stupid we are to shut our mouth and buying whaterver it s coming

I remember when AMD done it about a yr or 2 ago, they got absolutely slammed, thread was huge

well nVidia gave you a 2 year warning that AMD didn't gave also nVIDIA supported it's cards far longer than what AMD supported .Geforce 6 and 7 has support for the last generation of Windows , What about AMD can you say the same about them